Maria Saucedo Magnet Academy

Maria Saucedo Magnet Academy operates as an expansive elementary school in Chicago, Illinois, one of the schools within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Current enrollment sits at 922 students spanning grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Maria Saucedo Magnet Academy sits 142% bigger than that benchmark.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 comprises 622 schools with combined enrollment of 324,396 students; Maria Saucedo Magnet Academy is among them.

On the student-mix side, Maria Saucedo Magnet Academy shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (92%). The remainder looks like 6% Black, 2% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 69 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 91% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Maria Saucedo Magnet Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 18.8%, the actual is 18.8%, a residual of -0.1 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Cook County) logs that median household income runs about $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Maria Saucedo Magnet Academy is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

Telpochcalli Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Maria Saucedo Magnet Academy. On composite proficiency, Maria Saucedo Magnet Academy comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 14.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Maria Saucedo Magnet Academy has fell 8%, going from 1,005 students in 2018 to 922 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 96% to 92% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 in 2025.

On allk12, the feed for Maria Saucedo Magnet Academy typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.